Capital Radio 12-18-23: Christmas Excess
The last show before Christmas warrants the annual avalanche of holiday songs, starting with the Bosstones, Aimee Mann and Nick Lowe, shifting to '60s oddities from Bobby Goldsboro and Brian…
Monday TV: Lidia and Mary Celebrate on PBS
They’re cooking for the holidays on public television tonight. First comes “25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) in which daytime host, above, marks…
Sunday TV: Willie Nelson Turns 90 (and 3/4)
The two-day event happened eight months ago at the Hollywood Bowl, but at last “WIllie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration” (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) finally makes it to air, with performances of…
Saturday TV: Bowl Season and ‘Barbie’
College football’s bowl season begins today with seven games including UCLA vs. Boise State (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) in the LA Bowl in primetime network TV. Other bowl games today have…
Friday TV: ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’
Twenty three years after the original “Chicken Run,” here’s a return of the stop-motion flock in the feature “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” (Netflix, streaming). I guess it takes…
Thursday TV: Final Episodes of ‘The Crown’
Queen Elizabeth apparently does not die in the series finale of the solid series about her life “The Crown” (Netflix, streaming). But the final six episodes, being made available today…
Wednesday TV: Four from Paddy Chayefsky
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” bellowed the fictional news anchor in the 1976 film “Network” (TCM, 8 p.m.), a movie that seemed far…
Tuesday TV: Our Many Connections with Trees
The intersection of humans and trees is explored in Irene Taylor’s new documentary “Trees and Other Entanglements” (HBO, 10 p.m.). “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) looks into the…
Capital Radio 12-11-23: Fairytale of Shane
Things don't always go right when you pre-record a show. Sometimes, last week's show repeats by mistake, which it did today. And as happy as I was with that show,…
Monday TV: Barry Manilow’s Christmas Special
From the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas comes “Barry Manilow’s A Very Barry Christmas” (NBC, 10 p.m.), in which he’ll sing Christmas standards as well as…